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Pomodoro Breaks

Panigrahi Nirma

Making a host of powerful literature in science, technology, humanities, business and management available with the help of advanced technology and generative AI tools.

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00:19:36

Borders

Pomodoro Breaks ·

2025/08/25

This collection of excerpts explores the multifaceted nature of borders and their profound impact on labor in the context of contemporary global capitalism. The text introduces "border as method" as an analytical lens, emphasizing the heterogeneity and multiplication of labor across diverse geographical and conceptual landscapes, rather than viewing borders solely as fixed points of exclusion. It examines how borders function not just geographically but also internally and temporally,

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00:44:04

Innovative Strategies for Trade Finance

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2025/08/22

This collection of excerpts focuses on the evolution of trade finance, exploring its historical roots and its ongoing transformation through technological innovation. The text examines the role of traditional instruments like Letters of Credit (LCs) and newer mechanisms such as receivables financing and supply chain finance. A significant portion discusses the impact of digital technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence, highlighting their potential to enhance efficiency, transparency,

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00:19:18

Quantum Computing: Future of Information

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2025/08/21

This text presents an exploration of the current state and future potential of quantum computing, particularly focusing on its convergence with other advanced technologies. It examines the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and how they are leveraged in quantum algorithms, discussing their potential to significantly outperform classical computers in areas like optimization, data analysis, and simulation. Several applications are highlighted, including advancements in artificial intelligence

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00:19:15

The Network of Life

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2025/08/20

This compilation of excerpts from "The Network of Life: A New View of Evolution" by David P. Mindell challenges the conventional, strictly branching "tree of life" metaphor for evolution, proposing a more integrated "network of life" narrative. The text emphasizes horizontal evolution, a broad term encompassing processes like hybridization, species joining (endosymbiosis), and horizontal gene transfer, where genetic material is exchanged between different species rather

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00:47:34

Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

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2025/08/19

Peter Singer's The Expanding Circle explores the origins and development of ethics, arguing that our moral considerations have broadened throughout history due to reason. The text examines biological roots of altruism in kin selection and reciprocity, while also considering the influence of culture and reason in extending our moral circle beyond immediate groups to strangers and even animals. Singer critically analyzes sociobiological explanations of ethics, questioning whether biology alone can

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00:26:04

Relativity of Evolution

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2025/08/18

A comprehensive exploration of evolutionary processes across diverse biological systems, emphasising dynamics rather than mere historical facts. It highlights the intricate interplay between organisms and their abiotic environments, discussing how energy transformation, from quantum-physical photon interactions to various metabolic pathways, underpins life. The sources examine information processes within and between cells, the complex evolutionary lineages in marine and terrestrial habitats, and

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00:30:23

The Let Them Theory

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2025/08/15

Mel Robbins's "The Let Them Theory," a philosophy centered on regaining personal power and improving relationships by shifting focus from trying to control others to managing one's own responses. The book's chapters outline this theory's application in various aspects of life, including friendship dynamics, motivating others, helping those in distress, and navigating romantic relationships. It explores concepts such as the "5 Second Rule" for overcoming inaction

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00:30:57

The DOSE Effect

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2025/08/14

TJ Power's book "The Dose Effect," presents a science-backed approach to improving mental health and performance by focusing on four key neurochemicals: Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins. The author, a neuroscientist and co-founder of a mental health training company, explains how modern lifestyles often lead to a depletion of these chemicals and offers practical strategies and challenges to boost their levels. The book covers various methods, including lifestyle changes

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00:32:39

The Anxious Generation

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2025/08/13

"The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt, examines the mental health crisis among adolescents that began in the early 2010s, coinciding with the rise of the smartphone and social media. Haidt argues that this "Great Rewiring" from a play-based to a phone-based childhood has led to significant harms, including social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction. The book explores how social media disproportionately affects girls and video games and

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00:30:21

Simple Habits for Complex Times

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2025/08/12

Simple Habits for Complex Times, explores leadership practices necessary for navigating today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments. The authors advocate for cultivating specific habits of mind, such as asking different questions, taking multiple perspectives, and seeing systems, to move beyond traditional, predictable approaches. Through illustrative scenarios, like Yolanda's challenges in child protective services and Squint's at a growing software company, the

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00:19:20

Uncover Your One BIG Message

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2025/08/11

"Uncover Your One BIG Message®," by Natsuyo N. Lipschutz, guides business leaders in improving cross-cultural communication to achieve persuasion and success with diverse audiences. Drawing on Lipschutz's extensive experience as a strategist and speaker, the book offers practical frameworks and real-world examples for crafting clear and impactful messages. It emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural nuances and tailoring communication through techniques like the

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00:16:13

The Disordered Cosmos

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2025/08/08

This text explores the intricacies of particle physics and cosmology, elucidating complex concepts like vector bosons, dark matter, and the nature of spacetime. Simultaneously, it critically examines the historical and ongoing influence of colonialism, racism, patriarchy, and other societal biases within the scientific community, highlighting the underrepresentation and marginalization of various groups. The author intertwines personal experiences as a Black, agender scientist with explanations of

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00:29:21

Coding Theory

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2025/08/07

This document presents an extensive exploration of contemporary coding theory and related applications, aiming to provide an accessible entry point to advanced topics not typically found in standard textbooks. It covers various areas including error correction codes like Fountain, Tornado, LDPC, and Polar codes, discusses coding for distributed storage and locally repairable codes, examines locally decodable and batch codes, introduces expander codes, and explores rank-metric and subspace codes

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00:22:37

Physics of Flocking

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2025/08/06

This academic work explores the physics of flocking and active matter, focusing on developing hydrodynamic models to describe the collective motion of large groups. It utilizes the concept of universality and the powerful method of the Dynamical Renormalization Group (DRG) to understand the long-distance, long-time behavior of these systems. The text examines different types of flocks, including "dry" and "Malthusian" (with birth and death), and draws parallels to other physical

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00:22:17

Universe, neutrinos and stars

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2025/08/05

This source provides a broad overview of various topics in astrophysics and cosmology, beginning with a discussion on the nature and limitations of physics as a means of describing the universe. It introduces fundamental concepts such as elementary particles and their interactions, and explores the early universe, including the period of inflation and subsequent nucleosynthesis. Significant sections are dedicated to observable phenomena like the cosmic microwave background radiation and the role of

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00:25:04

Extreme States of Matter

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2025/08/04

This collection of texts focuses on the physics of extreme states of matter, exploring conditions of ultrahigh energy densities, pressures, and temperatures as found in both laboratory experiments and across the cosmos. It discusses various methods for achieving these states on Earth, such as lasers, particle accelerators, and explosive techniques, highlighting their technical applications including controlled nuclear fusion and material science. The text also examines the occurrence and properties

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00:15:37

Deep Time

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2025/08/01

This academic work explores the complex relationship between human experience and the vast scales of geological and evolutionary time, challenging anthropocentric views. It examines how deep time, animality, and eschatological thinking inform our understanding of ourselves and the world, drawing on philosophical concepts from thinkers like Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Heidegger. The text also considers the implications of scientific discoveries, particularly regarding the evolutionary past and the

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00:39:41

Disorientations

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2025/07/31

This academic work, edited by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and Tora Lane, titled "Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity," explores the concept of disorientation across philosophical and literary perspectives. It examines how thinkers like Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and authors like Kundera, Platonov, and Beckett grapple with fundamental shifts in understanding space, time, knowledge, and existence in the modern age. Key themes include the

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00:24:38

Power : Parts and Whole

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2025/07/30

This text originates from an academic book titled "Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers," edited by Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, and Andrea Roselli, and published by Routledge in 2024. The excerpts explore the complex philosophical relationship between mereology (the study of parts and wholes) and powers (dispositional properties like fragility or charge). Several chapters investigate how powers might have parts or compose wholes, examining different

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00:42:03

Nostalgia

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2025/07/29

These texts explore the complex and multifaceted nature of nostalgia throughout history, examining its origins, evolution, and impact. They discuss how nostalgia has been viewed variously as a medical condition, an emotion, or a political tool, tracing its appearance in ancient literature and philosophy through to its manipulation in modern political discourse and mass media. The sources analyze how different societies and thinkers have engaged with idealized or imagined pasts, highlighting the role

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